Author Archives: Xavier
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A mix of different theories
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Price… a huge topic and one on which much could be written on. I already wrote a post on it but focusing on a “simple” question that @lahikmajoe had asked me: how can two companies sell the same product at different prices. This time, it …
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Do Stormtroopers dream of good tea?
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No I didn’t fell for Star Wars, since that title came to my mind before finding this picture on the Internet. Snowtrooper drinking tea, photoshoot by Mike Stimpson (http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/) But who could blame a Snowtrooper from drinking something warm between patrols on cold worlds? Certainly …
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To my friend in tea
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I hope you will forgive me for this little piece I wrote dedicated to my Thermos Bottle during which I might have been overcome by a poetic enthusiasm and slightly I have exaggerated a little. But let’s get back to the poem. O you my …
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While follow eyes the steady keel
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Those who follow me may have noticed that I have a soft spot for tea (obvious) and for history and when both are mixed, it is pure bliss. And this is what happened to me during my holidays. I had seen that there was a …
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A quick and oversimplified look at a complex problem
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This post was prompted by an article I read on the Web about Mac Donald changing the way the Quarter Pounders is made with small steps made in order to improve their quality. This strategy is called differentiation, trying to make ones product more attractive …
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For you little gardener and lover of trees…
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By mere luck, I write this post while drinking a Darjeling tea, probably the most suited one as you will soon read. While going once again through some books and papers I have used for past posts, I became interested in knowing more about the …
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The best and most beautiful things
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Marcel Proust in Swann’s Way explains how a cup of tea and a madeleine allowed the narrator to get back to his childhood and to remember things long forgotten, the sensory experiences triggering all kinds of flashback. “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with …
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Prince of Persia
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For a whole generation of video players, Prince of Persia was a major hit with a “complex” story of prince, princess, assassins and a Persian kingdom (and a heart) to conquer. It sounds familiar? You change the name and the settings and you will have …
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Torture the data, and it will confess to anything
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My dear fellow Teatrader @thedevotea wrote a few weeks ago a post on a report about the increase in tea consumption in the world between now and 2019. His main complaint was that Australia didn’t make it to the top 20 of this list. This …
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Florilegium on Japanese tea
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Tea and Japan… A lot has been written about it and a lot could still be written on this subject but I decided to focus on a really small topic, the early Japanese tea exports. As it happens quite often, this is merely an introduction …